O-574-MCITY OF CLERMONT
ORDINANCE
N0.574-M
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY
OF CLERMONT, LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDA, ADOPTED
PURSUANT TO SECTION 125.01(1)(q), FLORIDA STATUTES (1999),
CONSENTING TO THE INCLUSION OF THE CITY OF CLERMONT,
FLORIDA, WITHIN THE COUNTY-WIDE MUNICIPAL SERVICE
TAXING UNIT FOR THE PROVISION OF AMBULANCE AND
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES, AS ADOPTED BY THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF LAKE COUNTY,
FLORIDA; PROVIDING FOR THE CITY TO BE INCLUDED WITHIN
SAID M.S.T.U. FOR A SPECIFIED TERM OF YEARS; PROVIDING
FOR SEVERABILITY, PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE
AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION.
WHEREAS, Lake and Sumter Counties have taken action to create anon-profit
corporation to provide ambulance services in Lake and Sumter Counties effective
September 30, 2000; and
WHEREAS, Lake County has determined that the best mechanism to secure the
necessary funding to provide said ambulance services is to create a countywide municipal
service taxing unit authorizing the County to levy ad valorem taxes therein for the
provision of ambulance and emergency medical services, and has enacted an emergency
ordinance creating that municipal service taxing unit; and
WHEREAS, Section 125.01(1)(q), Florida Statutes, provides that the boundaries
of a municipal service taxing unit may include all or part of the boundaries of a
municipality if the affected municipal consents, by ordinance, to be included therein; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Clermont has determined that it is in
the best interest of and serves the health, safety and general welfare of the residents of
Clermont to include the City of Clermont within the Lake County municipal service
taxing unit for ambulance and emergency services; and
WHEREAS, Lake County's emergency ordinance expressed its intent to include
the City of Clermont within the boundaries of the "Lake County Municipal Service
Taxing Unit for Ambulance and Emergency Medical Services," subject to the adoption of
an approving ordinance by the City Council of the City of Clermont;
NOW THEREFORE, be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Clermont,
Florida:
CITY OF CLERMONT
ORDINANCE N0.574-M
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Section 1. The City Council of the City of Clermont consents to the inclusion of
the City of Clermont within the boundaries of the "Lake County Municipal Service
Taxing Unit for Ambulance and Emergency Medical Services."
Section 2. This consent shall be for a term of one (1) year.
Section 3. All Ordinances or parts of this Ordinance in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.
Section 4. Should any section or part of this section be declared invalid by any
court of competent jurisdiction, such adjudications shall not apply to or affect any other
provision of this Ordinance, except to the extent that the entire section or part of the
section may be inseparable in meaning and effect from the section to which such holding
shall apply.
Section 5. This Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon final adoption by
the City Council of the City of Clermont, Florida.
PASSED AND ORDAINED BY the City Council of the City of Clermont,
Lake County, Florida on this 27th day of March 2007.
APPROVED:
aro d S. Turville, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Tracy Ackroyd, City Cle